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Cartoonist Eddie Campbell is probably best known for illustrating Alan Moore’s graphic novel treatise on Jack the Ripper, “From Hell.” Less well known is Campbell’s autobiographical work, which he’s been producing off and on since the late ‘70s. This December, for the first time, the entirety of this work will be collected in an enormous 638-page omnibus entitled “Alec: The Years Have Pants.”

Speakeasy sat down with Campbell at this year’s Comica festival at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to discuss his new book and the significance of autobiography in comics.

The Wall Street Journal: Why do you think autobiography seems to be such a prevalent genre in comics?

Eddie Campbell: Why it’s important, I don’t know. It only occurred to me the other day that [autobiography in comics] begins with Justin Green, who in 1973 published “Binky Brown meets the Holy Virgin Mary,” in which he tried to exorcise the demons of his Catholic guilt. I know that Art Spiegelman, for instance, has said that without Justin Green’s book he would never have made “Maus.” Read More »

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